An ukulele can be used to play chords when you sing but you can also play melodies. It’s fun and quite easy to learn melodies on your uke with ukulele tab. Let’s learn to play Happy Birthday To You!As many people know “Happy Birthday to You” is a song which is sung to celebrate a person’s birth. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, “Happy Birthday to You” is the most popular song in the English language.Here is the most common lyrics. “Peter” is to be replaced by the name of the celebrating person. Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday dear “Peter”, Happy birthday to you. I use my own form of ukulele tab for articles like this to be sure that the tabs are readable on article sites. The more common ukulele tab staff notation can be fo black leather guitar strap und on my site with ukulele tabs and free sheet music.The string with the highest pitch is usually an A and is called the first string. The first string is the string nearest your feet when you play your uke. The first notes in the song are on the third string.The first number indicates the fret. The second number after the slash tells you which string to play. Here is the first line of lyrics and the ukulele tab:Happy birthday to you,0/3 0/3 2/3 0/3 1/2 0/20/3 indicates that you play the third string with your right hand thumb for example without pressing down any left hand finger. It is called to play on the open third string.This type of ukulele tab doesn’t indicate the length of the notes. I guess you hear that the first two notes are short and the last note long.